1.   Although nonprofits were founded to provide charity care, Scott says, many now virtually exclude the poor.

2.   And a tax on cigarettes is also partly earmarked to pay public and private hospitals for charity care.

3.   But once Albany allows rates to fall, insurers would not voluntarily pay for charity care and physician training that does not directly benefit their subscribers.

4.   But it is unclear who would foot the bill if the need for charity care were to go higher.

5.   Charity care can fluctuate with the ebbs and flows of the economy.

6.   Columbia will try to get uninsured patients enrolled in AHCCCS and may write off some cases as charity care, Powell said.

7.   Community Health says it is committed to providing the same levels of charity care at Memorial.

8.   Democrats and several Republicans objected to the continued use of the unemployment fund to finance charity care.

9.   Doctors said that with the income from private contracts, they could afford to provide more charity care.

10.   Even so, more than three-fourths of the doctors provided some charity care.